Malay brotherhood

The Indonesian military began its mission in September with the deployment of 10,000 troops to South Sumatra to aid beleaguered civilian firefighters. Thousands of soldiers and marines have deployed to assist and operate field hospitals. The long battle has forced the military to rotate out exhausted troops and send fresh troops to the fire lines.

Military forces and emergency personnel from Singapore and Malaysia have also been battling the blaze on the ground and in the sky. Though Singapore’s contingent recently returned home, Malaysia is mulling over sending additional personnel and resources. Among the Malaysian proposals is sending air force C-130s to aid with cloud seeding — a controversial weather manipulation procedure meant to cause rain.

Russian water-bombing aircraft recently joined the Southeast Asian air crews to help douse the flames. The apparent success of the Russian planes has prompted Indonesian officials to ask the U.S. and Canadian governments for additional firefighting air crews.

US sources said that by giving the Lebanese Hellfire missiles, which are precision weapons, they are “helping them control the area around Arsal, because with a Hellfire you can take out a vehicle without threatening the civilians around it or you could take out a house suspected or known to be [holding] militants without killing people in the camp”.

The spokesman for the LAF, Brigadier General Ali Kanso, told Gulf News the army absorbs whatever assistance it can get from the US weapons support. “The army fights terrorists, we have a big mission ... in the north, in the south, and we are fighting in Arsal. Our aim is to have arms and technology.”

Its military has conducted three nuclear tests in tunnels at Punggye-ri – in 2006, 2009 and 2013.

South Korean believe its volatile neighbour is preparing for a FOURTH show of strength.

The alarming new development comes just weeks after leader Kim Jong-un warned the US he was "ready for WAR".

USS Theodore Roosevelt was reportedly supporting USS Lassen's Freedom of Navigation mission near the China-claimed shoals. So I asked if she's still at Changi now because she should have sailed already if (IF) that was true.

How was ktv

U should be asking the question how many are actually flying by canabilizing parts before actual replacement arrive.

hmm... then what would happen to j-18? 

why do you care?
you're still looking at a copycat twin engine F35.......
funny how they stole both Russian and American Naval Aircraft for indigenous manufacturing. 

lelz... wonder why ppl care so much of whether its indigenous or not... civilian mindset really gullible

Vikhr-1 is a supersonic laser-guided missile with a range of at least 10km developed for use by attack helicopters and light attack aircraft. At least two thousand of these missiles have been ordered by the Russian MOD.

The increase in the pace of aerial munition deliveries, to the point of munitions plants working on a three-shift basis, has been prompted by the need to replenish the stockpiles of munitions used in the Syria bombing campaign.

KF-X to Include Stealth Technology

Write : 2015-10-31 13:18:58 Update : 2015-10-31 13:33:37

The Agency for Defense Development has officially said that stealth technology is involved in South Korea’s domestic fighter jet project, dubbed the KF-X.
 
Agency President Chung Hong-yong made the remark at a plenary meeting of the National Assembly Defense Committee on Friday.
 
Asked about how advanced South Korea’s stealth technology is, Chung said he could not publicly disclose details but that stealth technology will go into the fighter jet.
 
He also said the United States rejected Seoul's request for a stealth technology transfer for the KF-X project, but South Korea has been developing the technology on its own since 1997.
 
Chung said South Korea’s stealth technology is considerably advanced in terms of design and materials, adding that discussions are under way on whether to apply what has already been developed.

Indonesia Approves US$78.6 million Investment in S.Korean KF-X Jet Project

Source : Our Bureau ~ Dated : Saturday, October 31, 2015 @ 06:58 AM

The Indonesian parliament approved a 1.07 trillion Rupiah (US$78.6 million) budget Friday for investment in South Korea's fighter jet project called KF-X.

This amount to being the first batch of funds for joint development of a new South Korean fighter jet with stealth capabilities, Indonesian and S.Korean officials said were quoted as saying in the Korean media.

The funds approved is the first of 1.7 trillion won ($1.49 billion) the Indonesian government has agreed to invest in the 8.4 trillion won project in exchange for some of the new technologies to be developed besides sharing in the prototype development.

The South Korean government will be bearing 60 percent of the total project cost with the rest set to be raised by local firms, officials from the defense procurement office of Korea told Yonnhap News. The move by the Indonesian parliament came one day after South Korea's own parliamentary subcommittee approved a 67 billion won budget for the fighter jet development program. The South Korean budget is still subject to approval by the parliament's defense committee and the parliament itself.

Following the U.S. State Department refusal to provide at least four out of 25 key technologies considered vital to the development of a fighter jet with stealth capabilities, citing International Traffic in Arms Regulations, S.Korea vowed to develop these technologies using its own R & D expertise. S.Korea plans to build 120 combat jets by 2025 for use by its own air force as well as its new partner, Indonesia.

The YJ-18 missile can cruise at about 600 miles an hour, or just under the speed of sound, only a few meters above the surface of the sea and then, about 20 nautical miles from its target, accelerate to as much as three times the speed of sound, according to an Oct. 28 report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

“The supersonic speed makes it harder to hit with on-board guns,” according to Larry Wortzel, a member of the commission. “It also makes it a faster target for radars.”

The Office of Naval Intelligence said in its April report on the People’s Liberation Army Navy that China had started to deploy its newest missile, but didn’t give precise details on its range. The Commission said the YJ-18 can travel about 290 nautical miles, more than 14 times as much as its predecessor, the YJ-82. It cited media reports and other unclassified sources.

China’s command and control infrastructure may be insufficient to generate the targeting information needed to take advantage of the YJ-18’s range. Also, the command and control system itself may be vulnerable to countermeasures such as electromagnetic warfare operations, making it difficult for the PLA to track ships and employ the missiles.

The YJ-18 should not be confused with the so-called “carrier killer” DF-21 anti-ship ballistic missile, which was paraded during China’s commemorations to mark the 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II. The DF-21, which would target aircraft carriers, would be fired from land-based mobile launchers. The YJ-18 could impede the progress of a carrier group, the commission report said.

hmm... then what would happen to j-18? 
navy stuff dunno... maybe ltz know better

ktv ok, new place, traffic fail... big 2pdf formation having some dinner night with their ns officers cause jam after makan...



dont look anything like this

The Obama administration announced Friday that it would be sending under 50 American military advisors to Syria to aid opposition forces in combatting the Islamic State.

Earnest added that it will not be the responsibility of the advisors to "leadt the charge  up the hill," adding that their main purpose in the Middle East will be to "train, advise and assist mission."

Yemenis have targeted the positions of Saudi forces both inside Yemen and on Saudi soil, inflicting heavy losses on them in a new series of retaliatory attacks.

A Yemeni military source, whose name was not released in reports, said army troops and fighters from allied Popular Committees destroyed a number of bases and arms depots used by Saudi forces in an area situated between Yemen’s central province of Ma’rib and al-Jawf Province in the north on Friday.

The attack left an unspecified number of Saudi military forces dead and injured, Yemen’s Saba Net news agency reported.

Meanwhile, the Yemeni army foiled the advance of the Saudi military on the country’s southern region of At Tabab, killing three Saudi troops and detonating two Saudi armored vehicles loaded with explosives.

In addition, several Saudi soldiers were wounded in rocket attacks on their base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern region of Jizan. Other bases in the Saudi region of Najran also came under attacks by the Yemeni forces.

Elsewhere on the battlefield, Yemeni troops also killed a number al-Qaeda militants and Takfiri Daesh terrorists, destroying their hideouts in the Az Zahir dirstrict of the central al-Bayda province.

for most people, it's down to manufacturing cost and creating jobs for the locals
for the chinese, it's more about cutting down on R&D

takda ..... j-18, that one china jane's kena tipu ......

last time someone used that phrase, Sukarno tried to invade Malaysia

Syrian media reported on Saturday that Israeli Air Force planes conducted two attacks on military bases belonging to President Bashar Assad and the Hezbollah in the Eastern Lebanon Mountains near Syria’s border with Lebanon Friday night. Local officials indicated that the target of the attack was a military unit stationed in the village of Ras al-Ayn, and the base is located on the outskirts of the village of Al-Qutayfah.

According to sources, the Israeli planes arrived through Lebanon. So far it is not known whether there were casualties in the attack. Also, government run media did not mention these reports.

This was the first report of an Israeli attack inside Syria since the Russian military intervention in that country. Israel’s defense establishment has refused to comment on the report. The Russian Defense Ministry has announced that Russian troops stationed in Syria established a direct line to the IDF, designed to coordinate aerial sorties to prevent clashes between planes belonging to the two air forces.